Despite the importance of the summit, Israel insists on evasion

Thursday is approaching, and the diplomatic kitchen is crowded with all trends, in light of international movements to reach a decisive summit to be held in Doha, which may constitute a last chance to extract a decision for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The results of the summit will not only affect the situation of war and aggression on the Gaza Strip, but will also affect the overall situation in the Middle East region, as it is clear and absolutely unambiguous that the potential response of Iran and Hezbollah has become linked to the results that will emerge from this summit, as Iran has threatened that Israel’s failure to agree to stop the aggression and reach an exchange deal or postpone and procrastinate in the negotiations will push it to strike Israel directly.

It is clear that the United States, Russia and other European countries have succeeded in convincing Iran to postpone its potential strike (which may not actually happen) according to developments, until the Doha negotiations are completed and their results are known. The question that arises here is what new proposals and formulas has the United States prepared through which it can bridge the gap and narrow the margin of differences, in order to achieve the goal of reaching a ceasefire, which will automatically lead to postponing the Iranian strike or stopping it completely, and what will be its position if the negotiations fail, especially since Iran and Hezbollah are also monitoring this summit, and it is clear that they have weight and influence on the course of the negotiations, in which the main password remains Hamas. Will it participate in the indirect negotiations, by focusing on its main demands that were specified in the July 2 proposals?

The results of the summit cannot be predicted in advance, but the moves that preceded it through visits by a number of American officials to the region suggest that the pressures have become greater this time, in an attempt to impose an exchange deal through a ceasefire, even for the first stage, through which the fuse of tension in the region can be defused. However, the important thing in this equation, as we have become accustomed to in previous times and rounds, remains Israel’s position, which still insists on its impossible conditions to thwart the deal through pressures from the extreme right on Netanyahu, to preserve the right-wing government in its ruling position, for fear of its overthrow by the Smotrich and Ben Gvir camps, and thus abandoning the Israeli detainees, as their families expressed their annoyance at the Israeli delegation not being assigned full powers for the negotiations, and the delegation being limited to a representation of the head of the Mossad. Here, Netanyahu’s office responded, after a meeting that lasted 6 hours, that all members of the Israeli negotiating delegation will participate in the Doha summit. It is clear that this is a tactic used by Netanyahu to silence the voices calling for reaching a deal, in a cunning diplomatic manner, and an attempt to Blaming and burdening Hamas and accusing it of changing the terms of the agreements proposed in May and July, but the truth is that Netanyahu is the one who added new terms and conditions to the ceasefire proposals.

Despite the great importance attached to this summit, Israel cannot be trusted at all. It is the only party in the negotiation equation that does not want a ceasefire, and only seeks to exploit diplomatic moves and negotiations and use them as a cover to continue its aggression and massacres against the Palestinian people.